Carl Haber is an American
physicist
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Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate caus ...
. He is best known for his work in audio preservation. In 2013 he was awarded a
MacArthur Fellowship.
Career
Haber attended Columbia University for his B.A., M.Phil, and Ph.D. Since 1986, he has worked for the
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Haber's work on the
IRENE
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Places
* Irene, Gauteng, South Africa
* Irene, South Dakota, United States
* Irene, Texas, United State ...
system has involved collaboration with the Smithsonian and the Library of Congress. Methods invented by Haber have been credited with restoring the earliest known recording of a human voice, as well as early recordings of
Alexander Graham Bell
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's voice.
He was elected a
Fellow of the American Physical Society
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in 2001
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References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century American physicists
Columbia College (New York) alumni
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory people
MacArthur Fellows
Fellows of the American Physical Society
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